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Bombardier Flight Deck app 2.0 – what’s new

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Table of Contents What’s new in Bombardier Flight Deck app 2.0 ........................................................................................... 3

Sync progress screen ..................................................................................................................................... 4

General information ................................................................................................................................. 5

Sync progress information ........................................................................................................................ 6

iPad disk usage information ...................................................................................................................... 7

The new application menu ........................................................................................................................... 8

Open the application menu ...................................................................................................................... 9

Select a feature ....................................................................................................................................... 10

Select a library ......................................................................................................................................... 10

Switch your aircraft ................................................................................................................................. 11

Open a publication .................................................................................................................................. 12

Open your aircraft library ....................................................................................................................... 13

Open your fleet library ............................................................................................................................ 13

Open your type library ............................................................................................................................ 14

Open your active library ......................................................................................................................... 14

Open the confirm page ........................................................................................................................... 15

The new Tools page .................................................................................................................................... 16

Log out of evernote ................................................................................................................................. 16

Close all tabs ........................................................................................................................................... 17

Close the tools page ................................................................................................................................ 18

Switch your aircraft ................................................................................................................................. 18



Open the settings page ........................................................................................................................... 19

Build the library search database ........................................................................................................... 19

Erase the contents of your Active folder Inbox ...................................................................................... 21

Remove your account data ..................................................................................................................... 22

Erase your iPad sync reports ................................................................................................................... 23

Open the new PDF document menu........................................................................................................... 24

Document favorites .................................................................................................................................... 25

Open the favorites page from the main menu ....................................................................................... 25

Open the favorites page from within a document ................................................................................. 26

Add a page to favorites ........................................................................................................................... 28

Upload documents to Evernote .................................................................................................................. 29

Enable night mode from the main menu .................................................................................................... 32

New app settings ........................................................................................................................................ 35

Turn the new application menu on or off ............................................................................................... 35

Turn the new tools page on or off .......................................................................................................... 36

Send notifications on upload .................................................................................................................. 37

Enable night mode .................................................................................................................................. 37

Auto close the sync screen ..................................................................................................................... 38

Show last viewed document ................................................................................................................... 38

Other Changes ............................................................................................................................................ 39

New movable tabs .................................................................................................................................. 39

Improvements in the Annotation feature .............................................................................................. 40

New library navigation Top button ......................................................................................................... 40

New memory management .................................................................................................................... 41

New publications support for the CRJ and Q series aircraft ................................................................... 41



Text search improvements ..................................................................................................................... 41

What’s new in Bombardier Flight Deck app 2.0 Bombardier Flight Deck app 2.0 includes many new features and a new look for the sync progress

screen, the main application menu, the tools page and the PDF document menu.

This document lists the changes made to version 2.0 of the Bombardier Flight Deck app.



Sync progress screen On the sync progress screen there is now much more information displayed.

Please see the topics below, General information, Sync Process information and iPad disk usage

information for more detail.



General information On the sync progress screen the general information listed includes the aircraft tail number being

synced, the pilot name as entered into BFD in the pilot name field, a battery meter, Zulu time and a Wi-

Fi meter.

1. The aircraft tail number for the aircraft currently being synced. 2. The pilot name, as entered into BFD in the pilot name field on the BFD settings page. 3. A battery meter. 4. Zulu time. 5. A Wi-Fi indicator that indicates connection type (Wi-Fi, LTE).



Sync progress information The sync progress information on the new sync screen includes a progress bar, the percentage

complete, the estimated time to complete the sync, the file currently being downloaded and the

number of files remaining / total downloaded for the current aircraft.

1. Sync progress bar. 2. Sync percentage complete. 3. Estimated time remaining. 4. The file currently being downloaded. 5. The number or files remaining and the total number of files to be downloaded for the selected

aircraft.



iPad disk usage information There are several disk usage indicators including, a listing for the library sizes and the total data size for

the app, the free disk space on the iPad and the total disk space on the iPad.

1. The size of the Fleet folder. 2. The size of the Aircraft folder. 3. The size of the Type folder. 4. The size of the Publications folder. 5. The size of the Active folder. 6. The size of all data stored in Flight Deck. 7. The amount of free disk space available on the iPad. 8. The total size of the iPad disk.



The new application menu The new application menu moves the application menu items from a static position on the top of the

application frame to a slide in menu which gives a pilot a lot more space to select a feature or library.



Open the application menu 1. The new menu may be opened by tapping the menu icon on the top left of the application frame.

2. The new menu may also be opened by sliding one finger in from the left of the application frame.



Select a feature A “turbulence tolerant” menu that uses a tap, hold and slide gesture, has been implemented on the

features menu which allows a pilot to touch, hold and slide a finger to select a feature on the new

application menu.

This gesture will select the feature highlighted when the pilot removes their finger from the iPad screen,

which makes it much easier to select an option during turbulence.

Select a library A “turbulence tolerant” menu, a tap, hold and slide gesture, has also been implemented on the libraries

menu which allows a pilot to touch, hold and slide a finger to select a library on the new application

menu

This gesture will select the library highlighted when the pilot removes their finger from the iPad screen

which makes it much easier to select a library during turbulence



Switch your aircraft If you have more than one aircraft assigned to your iPad you can switch the aircraft on your iPad by

touching and holding the aircraft library button.

You can then select the aircraft from the scrollable list of aircraft by tapping an aircraft in the list.



Open a publication To open a publication tap the Pub button and select a publication from the publications list.

The selected publication will open.



Open your aircraft library To open your aircraft library, tap the tail number button.

Open your fleet library To open your fleet library, tap the Fleet button.



Open your type library To open your type library, tap the Type button.

Open your active library To open your active library, tap the Active button.



Open the confirm page To open the confirm page tap the Confirm button.



The new Tools page The tools page has been re-organized to give the page a more flight deck oriented look. The tools page

retains all of the previous tools page functionality and adds a function to log out of evernote.

Log out of evernote If a pilot has logged into their Evernote account to upload a document the LOGOUT EVERNOTE button

on the tools page will be activated.

Tap the LOGOUT EVERNOTE to log out of your Evernote account.



Close all tabs The close all tabs button closes all open document tabs.

1. Tap the CLOSE ALL TABS button to close all opened document tabs.

2. Tap Yes to continue and close all open document tabs.



Close the tools page Tap the CLOSE TOOLS button to close the tools page.

Switch your aircraft Scroll through the list of aircraft, select the aircraft you will be flying and tap the SWITCH AIRCRAFT

button.



Open the settings page Tap the SETTINGS button to open the settings page.

Build the library search database To allow a search in a library for the selected aircraft the library search index database must be built.

1. Tap the BUILD SEARCH button to build the library search index database.

2. When prompted with the warning message, tap YES to continue or NO to cancel the operation.



3. A progress message is displayed showing the file being indexed.

Once the search library index has been built the progress message will close.

4. Tap the CLOSE TOOLS button to close the Tools page.



Erase the contents of your Active folder Inbox When you share a file from another iPad app to Bombardier Flight Deck a copy of the file is saved into

the selected aircraft’s Active folder Inbox. These files may be removed by erasing the content of your

Inbox.

Note: Nothing on the server is changed so a subsequent sync will replace the files that were placed on

the server in your aircraft’s active folder Inbox.

1. Tap the ERASE INBOX button to remove all files from the selected aircraft’s active folder Inbox.

2. When prompted tap Yes to continue or No to cancel the operation.

3. If you tapped Yes, a notification message will be displayed after the Inbox has been erased.

4. Tap Ok to close the notification message.




Remove your account data If you suspect you have corrupted files and wish to sync a clean copy of all files onto your iPad you may

remove all of the app data by using the Wipe Account tab.

1. Tap the Wipe Account tab.

2. When prompted tap YES to continue or NO to cancel the operation.

3. If you tapped YES in the previous step you will be prompted a second time, if you wish to continue tap YES, tap NO to cancel the operation.

4. Once the data removal operation is complete a notification message will be displayed, tap Ok to exit the notification message.

Note: You can now reload your data by syncing all aircraft.



Erase your iPad sync reports 1. Tap the Erase Reports tab to erase the sync reports on your iPad.

This will remove the list of sync reports for the selected aircraft.

2. When you are prompted, tap YES to continue and erase the iPad sync reports for the selected aircraft, tap NO to cancel the operation.




Open the new PDF document menu The new PDF document menu moves the features selection onto a grid control. Tap the grid icon to

open the PDF menu.

On the grid menu swiping to the right will open page two of the grid swiping to the left will return to

page one of the grid. Changing the PDF document menu to a grid style menu now allows us to add new

features to the PDF control in the future.

Note that the Table of contents has been resized to allow more accurate finger presses.



Document favorites

Open the favorites page from the main menu Tap the favorites icon.

The favorite’s page will open and display a list of all favorites.



Open the favorites page from within a document 1. On the PDF menu a favorite may be added or the favorites page opened by tapping the quick select

Favorites button on the top right of the menu.

If the star is white no favorite for the page has been added and a message prompting you to, add a favorite, show favorites, or cancel will be shown, tap Show favorites to open the favorites page without adding the current document to favorites.

If the star is yellow a favorite has been previously added for the selected page and tapping the

star will open the favorites page.



The favorite’s page will open and display a list of all favorites.



Add a page to favorites If a page has not already been added to favorites tap the Add favorite item to add the document page to

the favorites page.

Set the properties of the favorite as shown below.

1. Type in the name of your favorite. 2. Adjust the page of the favorite using the - / + controls. 3. Set the background colour of the favorite. 4. Select a category for the favorite. 5. Click the Done button to add the page to your document favorites



Upload documents to Evernote A pilot may now upload annotated pages into their Evernote account and then have access to the

uploaded notes on any device they have Evernote installed on.

1. Open the document menu and tap the Evernote icon.

2. Select your upload option.



3. Type in a note or comment.

4. Tap the Upload icon



The uploaded document may then be accessed using any device or computer with Evernote installed on

it when the pilot signs into their Evernote account.

Note: An account may be created free of charge at this address, https://evernote.com/.

https://evernote.com/



Enable night mode from the main menu A new “night mode” setting has been added to the application to allow a pilot to set the background of

the app to “Night mode”

1. Touch the Menu icon in the top left corner of Flight Deck to open the main application menu alternately you may swipe from the left to open the main application menu.

2. Tap the Brightness icon to open the brightness control.



3. Flip the switch On to enable night mode.

4. Flip the switch Off to disable night mode.



5. Close the brightness control by tapping the X in the left corner of the brightness control.



New app settings

Turn the new application menu on or off The setting, New Menu, toogles the application between the new menu and the menu from BFD 1.99.6,

this feature is turned on by default.

When the setting is turned on the application

displays the new application menu in Bombardier

Flight Deck 2.0.

When the setting is turned off the application will

display the same menu used in version 1.99.6 of

the application.



Turn the new tools page on or off The setting, New tools, toogles the application between the new tools page and the tools page from

BFD 1.99.6 this setting is turned on by default.

When the setting is turned on the application

displays the new application tools page.

When the setting is turned off the application will

display the tools page displayed in version 1.99.6 of

the application.



Send notifications on upload The setting Send notification on upload sends a notification to your fleet manager when a file is

uploaded to the server. This setting is off by default.

When this setting is turned on any file uploaded to the cloud will generate a notification email sent your

fleet manager.

Enable night mode The setting Enable night mode enables the BFD night mode. This setting is off by default.

When enable night mode is set to on the app will change all views other than the document view to

night mode.



Auto close the sync screen The setting Auto close the sync screen is off by default to allow the information on the sync screen to be

read before closing the sync screen with the close button.

When this setting is turned on the sync screen will automatically close when the sync is completed.

Show last viewed document The setting Show last viewed document is Off by default.

If the setting is turned on when the application is opened the last document viewed in the app before it

was closed will open with the application.



Other Changes

New movable tabs Document tabs may be reordered using a touch and hold gesture.

1. Touch and hold the document tab.

2. Drag the tab to place it in the position you wish it to occupy.

3. Remove your finger from the tab to drop the tab into its new position.



Improvements in the Annotation feature When in either annotation mode or text annotation mode a new button on the main document menu

will allow you to close the annotation mode and return to read mode.

New library navigation Top button A new Top button has been added to allow navigation back to the root folder of a library from any folder

within the library. You may now return to the root of the selected library with a single tap of the Top

button.

1. Navigate to any folder in a library.

2. Click the Top button to return to the root of the selected library.



New memory management The application has been refactored to use Apple ARC memory management, providing a more stable

and robust memory management, resulting in less likelihood of a crash when used with other

applications that are memory hogs such as Jeppesen FD.

New publications support for the CRJ and Q series aircraft We have added support for the CRJ, and Q series manuals in version 2.0 of the application.

Text search improvements Search Text now supports search by phrase.

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